word, this edition is a fine specimen of the art of book-making, in the best sense of that phrase, as its type, paper, illustrations, and binding, are elegant and attractive. Would that in these days of selfishness, apostacy, and trifling, these patriotic, Protestant, and high-principled poems were found in every drawing-room, and read in every family. (Tilt & Bogue.)

The extraordinary activity of churchmen in the circulation of tracts that are full of doctrinal error and clerical assumption, requires to be met by the equal activity of Evangelical Dissenters. The time has come when they must not restrict themselves to the valuable publications of the Religious Tract Society, but must seek to put into the hands of their neighbours tracts that will explain and vindicate the principles which are now so fiercely assailed. Besides The Congregational Union Tracts, which promise to become a very valuable series, and the smaller publications of The Western Congregational Tract Society, several temperate and timely tracts have been published by individuals who ought to be encouraged in their efforts. Dr. Vaughan's "Modern Persecutors Delineated," (Dinnis ;) Dr. Leifchild's “ Directions for the Right and Profitable Use of the Scriptures ;" and "The Plain Christian Guarded against some Popular Errors respecting the Scriptures," by the same author, (published by Ward & Co.); and Dr. Alliott's "The Doctrine of Apostolical Succession Tested by Scripture," (Dinnis ;) all have our cordial recommendation; and we take leave to say, that it is worse than useless for wealthy persons amongst us to deplore the wide-spread increase of semi-popish opinions throughout the country, if they will not spend a crown in the distribution of publications, which, by the blessing of God, might help to stay the plague.

THE EDITOR'S TABLE.

Christian Consistency; or, the Connexion between Experimental and Practical Religion. Designed for Young Christians. By E. Mannering. 2nd edition. 18mo. R. Baynes.

A Pastor's Memorial to his former Flock: consisting of Sermons and Addresses, the relics of a bygone ministry. By John Macdonald, A.M., a Missionary Minister of the Church of Scotland, in India, and formerly Pastor of the Scotch Church, Islington. 12mo. N. B. Cotes.

"No Popery!" The Cry Examined. 12mo. J. Snow.

Consistent Christian Fellowship, being a Reply to "A Few Thoughts on what is commonly called Pure Communion." 8vo. Jackson & Walford.

Model Lessons for Infant School Teachers and Nursery Governesses. Second Part: containing Lessons on the Natural History of the Bible, &c. 12mo. L. & G. Seeley. The Lot of Mortality, Death; the Pilgrim's Rest, the Grave; and Early Flowers. By the Rev. Adam Nelson, M.A. 18mo. Hamilton, Adams, & Co.

The Invisible Church. A Sermon occasioned by the Death of Alfred Hardcastle, Esq., March 7th, 1842, and of Joseph Hardcastle, Esq., March 19th, 1842; delivered at Hanover Chapel, Peckham. By William Bengo Collyer, D.D., LL.D., &c. 8vo. T. Ward & Co.

The Antiquities of the Christian Church. By Lyman Coleman. Reprinted from the American edition of 1841. Being No. 37 of Ward's Library of Standard Divinity. Imperial 8vo. Ward & Co.

Christ our Law. By the Author of Christ our Example. 12mo. L. & G. Seeley. The Life of Cyprian. 12mo. Religious Tract Society.

God in his Works; or, Redemption in Creation. By the Rev. R. Hemphill, A.M. 12mo. Longman & Co.

The Life and Defence of the Conduct and Principles of the Venerable and Calumniated Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London in the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth; in which is considered the Best Mode of Again Changing the Religion of this Nation. By a Tractarian British Critic. Dedicated to the Bishop of London. 8vo. Seeley & Burnside.

A Christian Companion for the Chamber of Sickness. By a Minister. 12mo. Tract Society.

The English Maiden: Her Moral and Domestic Duties. 2nd edition. 12mo. Talboys, Clarke, & Wilson.

An Inquiry into the Scriptural Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness. By T. K. 12mo. Dublin: Curry & Co.

A Letter to the Rev. W. H. Dorman, in reply to his Tract, called, "Truth for the Times." By a Congregational Dissenter. 12mo. Houlston & Stoneman.

Antinomianism: its Errors, Evils, and Absurdities. By the Rev. W. Thorn. 12mo. Jackson & Walford.

Holy Charity; shown to be Immortal in its Principle and in its Works. By the Rev. F. A. Cox, D.D., LL.D. 18mo. Ward & Co.

Puseyism Unmasked; or, the Great Protestant Principle of the Right of Private Judgment Defended against the Arrogant Asumptions of the Advocates of Puseyism. A Discourse by John Morris, Bermondsey. 12mo. J. Dinnis.

Missionary Book for the Young. 18mo. Religious Tract Society.

Pastoral Counsels. No. I. Addressed to a newly-admitted Member of a Congre gational Church. By David Russell, Glasgow. 18mo. J. Maclehose.

Observations on Richard Waldo Sibthorp's "Answer to the Enquiry, 'Why are you become a Catholic?" By a Spectator. 8vo. R. Groombridge.

Fox's Book of Martyrs. Edited by the Rev. John Cumming, M.A. Imperial 8vo. Part XII. G. Virtue.

The Sacred Scriptures in Hebrew and English. A new Translation, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, by the Rev. D. A. De Sola, Minister of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews; J. L. Lindenthal, Reader and Secretary to the New Synagogue; and Morris J. Raphall, Editor of the Hebrew Review. 8vo. Part I. Bagster & Sons. The Egg. Religious Tract Society.

Canadian Scenery Illustrated. Past XII. 4to. G. Virtue.

A Few Words to Tradesmen and to the Public on the Desirableness and Practicability of Abridging the Number of the Hours of Business. By A. J. K. 16mo.

J. F. Shaw.

Family Prayers: being a Complete Course for Eight Weeks, with additional Prayers, suited to the Fasts and Festivals of the Church, and various Occasions and Circumstances of a Family. By the Rev. E. Bickersteth. 12mo. L. & G. Seeley.

The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland Illustrated. 4to. Part XIII. G. Virtue. Panoramic View of Jerusalem, and the adjacent Towns and Villages, from a Drawing by the Librarian of the Arminian Convent. With Descriptions and Illustrations from the Works of Dr. Robinson and other travellers. Tilt & Bogue.

Elements of Astronomy; adapted to Private Instruction and use in Schools. By Hugo Reid. Illustrated by fifty-six engravings on wood. 12mo. Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.

History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century. By J. H. Merle D'Aubigné, President of the Theological Seminary, Geneva. Translated by D. D. Scott, Esq., with notes from the Netherlands Edition of the Rev. J. J. De Roy, of the Dutch Reformed Church. Illustrated with Portraits. 8vo. Parts VI.-XII. Blackie & Co.

CHRONICLE OF BRITISH MISSIONS.

HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

THE Twenty-third Anniversary Services of the Society will take place in the following order :

On Monday evening, the 16th of May, the Rev. Dr. Harris will preach the annual sermon in the Poultry Chapel, (Rev. John Clayton's, jun.;) the service to commence at half-past six o'clock.

On Tuesday evening, the 17th, the Annual General Meeting of the subscribers and friends of the Society, will be held in Exeter Hall. Sir C. E. Smith, Bart., will preside. The chair to be taken precisely at six o'clock.

Tickets of admission to the public Meeting may be obtained at the Society's Rooms, Congregational Library, No. 4, Blomfield Street, Finsbury, and at Mr. Snow's, the Society's publisher, 35, Paternoster Row, after the 10th of May.

It has been considered desirable by the Directors, that on Tuesday morning, the 17th of May, a meeting should be held in the Congregational Library, of the town and country Directors of the Home Missionary Society, at which all the ministers, who aid the institution, and other gentlemen, are respectfully invited to be present. The object of the meeting will be to take into consideration the present state of Home Missions, and the best means for giving a renewed impulse to the efforts of the churches and associations on behalf of home. The business will commence at ten o'clock.

DISTRESSED POOR OF THE HOME MISSIONARY AND OTHER CHURCHES LATELY

RECEIVING AID.

The Directors have unfeigned pleasure in stating to the churches of London, and of the country, from which subscriptions have been received to relieve the pressing necessities of the poor members, that they have been able to announce in the Patriot newspaper the closing of the subscription list, "on account of the sufficiency of the aid afforded, and the lessening of the pressure of poverty which existed in the winter months. The handsome sum of £500 has been received, the largest proportion of which has been distributed by the missionaries and pastors connected with the Society, among those whose claims were urgent.

The Directors can

In this way, the poorest members of forty-six churches have received most seasonable and valuable assistance. The number of cases relieved, and some interesting facts connected with the distribution of the bounty of the churches, together with a statement of accounts, will be published, and copies sent to all the ministers and friends who have helped the "poor saints" in their time of need. There is no intention of retaining any part of the sum which has been contributed for future emergencies; and the Directors hope that there will be no early, or annual necessity for soliciting similar aid, unless there be cases of oppression demanding help. not close their remarks on this subject, without devoutly acknowledging the goodness of God, in honouring them to become the almoners of the churches' bounty to so many of the oppressed and impoverished people of God, who have had their wants relieved, their faith strengthened, and their hearts encouraged by assistance from unexpected sources. Their prayers for help have been answered, and their gratitude to God and man has been greatly excited. The paper appended to this month's Magazine contains some evidences of the state of mind which has been produced. The Directors feel also constrained gratefully to acknowledge the prompt and hearty response made by many of the London ministers and churches, and by ministers and friends in the country, to the appeal put forth in February last. It has encouraged them to hope

that while the temporal necessities of the afflicted believers in rural districts have drawn forth their sympathy and help, the spiritual necessities of many thousands around those Christian churches in the country, who are ready to perish, will still continue to excite their pity, and secure their invaluable aid. An interchange of feeling, and an identity of object, have been produced by this seasonable interposition between town and country. Thus while the Home Missionaries and feebler churches are trying to spread around them the light of truth, though discouraged by poverty, power, and bigotry, the metropolitan and other churches have come forward and said, in effect, "We are strong, and will bear the infirmities of the weak, we will not let you be crushed by the hand of oppression, if we can prevent it; let us know your real necessities, and we will esteem it a privilege and an honour to relieve them." This has been done in deeds, the poor feel it to be so, and they have been strengthened and encouraged to co-operate with their ministers in doing good. So that even their deep poverty has turned out to "the furtherance of the Gospel." Let the churches who have been enabled to assist, value highly the prayers of hundreds of God's people, which are now offered up from warm and grateful hearts, for their spiritual prosperity.

CAUTION RESPECTING THE "GENERAL HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY."

We have been obliged to insert the following notice in the “ Patriot” newspaper :CAUTION.-Home Missionary Society. The Directors of the Home Missionary established in London in 1819, find it necessary respectfully to caution its subscribers and the public, respecting two recently formed societies, which have assumed as a part of their title, the words, "Home Missionary Society." The name of the one is, "The General Home Missionary Society;" that of the other is, "The London Christian Church Home Missionary Society."

The Directors have received communications from many of their friends, intimating that they have contributed to the agents of these new institutions, under the impression that they were assisting the funds of the Home Missionary Society, the office of which has, for a number of years, been at No. 11, Chatham Place, Blackfriars; but, since Lady-day, at 4, Blomfield Street, Finsbury Circus. The Directors, therefore, consider it their duty thus publicly to state, in order to prevent mistakes, that they have no connexion whatever with those institutions. The only person authorised to collect subscriptions in London for their society is Mr. William Pitts, No. 8, Melina Place, St. John's Wood. By order of the Directors,

Since the above notice appeared, we have received further communications, all tending to show, that many persons have given subscriptions under the impression that they were assisting "The Home Missionary Society." One of our directors has had an interview with two of the agents, who are collecting from house to house, in London and its vicinity. He ascertained some facts which excited great suspicion in his mind, as to the integrity of the men who had assumed the name of our society as a part of their own. That it was with a special object the name was taken we have no doubt whatever. A letter has been received from Newcastle-on-Tyne, from a correspondent, who, after making inquiry respecting the parties operating at head quarters, could gain no satisfactory information. Their religious opinions were supposed to be Wesleyan. No one could tell him anything about their ecclesiastical polity; their ministers were not known as belonging to any existing denomination, but they were said to practise adult baptism. It has been ascertained that there are six persons in London, calling themselves ministers, who are engaged in collecting

money. One of these individuals declared to our director, that he was appointed nine months ago to a station at Plymouth, but he had not yet visited the place! When they call on persons, they solicit money for the Home Missionary Society, and it is only by a cross-examination, and by very direct questions, that it can be found out that the parties are not in some way or other a BRANCH of the Home Missionary Society. The very card they leave at the houses they visit produces this mistake. This does not appear fair dealing, and we are disposed to recommend to the friends of our society, great caution in giving to persons soliciting aid under names which they should never have assumed; especially one which is not correct, for it cannot in truth be said, that few individuals, calling themselves a society, and having agents in some places, form a " General Home Missionary Society."

The Directors beg to say, that they have not only no connexion with the parties in question, but consider the whole conduct of the agents now in London, as suspicious. They are prepared, if these men are still determined to retain their name, to publish other facts which have come into their possession. The Directors would not have interfered in this matter, had the parties referred to promoted their object in a straightforward, honest way, and, by the use of some title which would properly designate their religious opinions and designs, avoided the apparent intention of obtaining money, by using the name of a society which is familiar to many, and which the Directors trust is increasing in public estimation.

IRISH EVANGELICAL SOCIETY.

FROM THE JOURNAL OF REV. JAMES BAIN, OF STRAID.

WHILE visiting in the neighbourhood of the Cairn Hill, I was invited by a young man to go and see his wife, who, he feared, was dying. Knowing him to be a Roman Catholic, I thought it rather strange, but in reply to some questions he said, "My wife has been constantly thinking about you, and wishing to see you, since you preached on the Hill." His eyes filled with tears, and he continued, "I fear I am going to lose her; she will not listen to our clergy, and she will be lost for ever.” "I hope not," I replied, "don't you know that the Lord Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners who believe in him?" I sat by the fire until the poor woman was in readiness to see me--she came out of another room with a hurried and faltering step, and seized my hand saying, "Oh sir, I am glad to see you; I thought long for you." At this moment her whole frame seem changed from its languidness, while her countenance brightened as she said, "Oh sir, your preaching on the Hill has never been out of my mind ever since I heard it, and I have often wished I could see you to tell all my heart to you; and now, I fear, I am dying." Here she stopt, her tears flowed down her cheeks when again she resumed "O that my soul were but ready to leave this world! how happy I would be, to dwell for ever with that Saviour of whom you said so much!" I said, "No mortal tongue can tell the extent of his love to sinners, and he will refuse none that put their trust in him." On looking into her countenance, I recognized her as one of my audience on the Hill, but, alas! how changed! her healthful countenance had indeed put on the symptoms of speedy decay. I soon found from our conversation that her husband was firmly attached to the tenets of "mother church"-that he had done all in his power to silence the fears of her soul by the visits and admonitions of his clergy; but the arrows of the Lord had pierced the heart, and revived the embers of Bible truth which had been kindled in her youth, and the Spirit now opened to her the necessity of resting her claims for mercy on the sacrifice of Christ alone. Though entreated to have the priest, she insisted on my being sent for; and when pressed by her husband, she said, she loved him sincerely, but could not trust the priest. For a time she had